I've been having problems with my tranny for a little while now and been asking for suggestions. I got another little piece of data yesterday on the highway coming home from work. Doing about 75-80, rpm's in OD were about 4000 (this is an Art Carr non-L/U tranny with 3500 stall converter). Does this RPM seem right or is that a 3rd gear rpm?? Hard to tell what gear it was in by counting the shifts. But after a couple miles of this I started getting a cloud of smoke behind me and a strong tranny fluid smell. I've been having a tranny fluid smell occassionally before, but could never find any leakage. Well, this time I found it. It's coming from the vent tube in the top of the tranny. Any ideas what would cause this? The tranny fluid level is good, but does have a burnt smell to it I think. I've had the pan off with NO abnormal material in it. I'm running the new Ford tranny fluid FA. Does this have more of a burnt smell to it new? (didn't smell it before I put it in) I still have Reverse slipping pretty badly MOST of the time. Sometimes it will work decent though. The forward gears and shifts seem to work good. Only problems are the fluid from the vent, burnt smell, and slipping reverse now. This all started when I put in a stageright T-Brake. It is out now, and that helped the reverse problem, but still have these things happening. I'm at my witts end, and I can't afford a new tranny until tax refund time.
Anyone have experience with the switch pitch TH-400 tranny? I'm seriously considering switching over since I'm in Hawaii and there aren't too many highways here (3 to be exact) so I don't do much highway driving.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Derrick
87GN 11.8@118mph (BEFORE 3/4 of the below mods)
Anyone have experience with the switch pitch TH-400 tranny? I'm seriously considering switching over since I'm in Hawaii and there aren't too many highways here (3 to be exact) so I don't do much highway driving.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Derrick
87GN 11.8@118mph (BEFORE 3/4 of the below mods)